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Old 07-09-2019, 10:18 AM
Maxbumpo Maxbumpo is offline
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Originally Posted by alghamedGT View Post
my car has a lifter noise
but when a rotate the engine and press using a plastic tool all lifters are nice and hard !
did this mean that the lifters are fine?

I'm on the fence on this. I suspect that with such high mileage, your lifters are probably not operating at full pressure, and so lifter rattle is possible, especially at idle.


As pointed out, injectors can also make noise, as can bad delivery valves. Probably easier to check and address those first.
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